Herbie Hancock honored at NEC commencementThe Boston GlobeBut not if that someone is Herbie Hancock, who had a science background at Grinnell College, but also played with Donald Byrd, Coleman Hawkins, and Miles Davis, and won more than a dozen Grammy Awards for compositions such as “Cantaloupe Island,” ...

Sweet Megg brings the hot jazzThe Adirondack Daily EnterpriseRecently I mixed some Django Reinhardt music with Coleman Hawkins and wrote some lyrics to that.” Taking inspiration from jazz, blues, country, bebop and French jazz, Farrell said the band likes to mix a lot of things together. “We just blend it all ...

Notes and tones: Lack of apprenticeship shapes state of jazzColumbia Daily Tribune... City's great jazz heritage; he covered everything from Bruce Ricker's film, “The Last of The Blue Devils,” to the state of the Mutual Musicians Foundation, to the melodic and lyrical saxophone sounds of Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young.